Type: | Bishop |
Gaspare Gori-Mancini | |
Bishop of Malta | |
Church: | Roman Catholic |
Diocese: | Malta |
Appointed: | 1 June 1722 |
Term: | 1722-1727 |
Term End: | 16 July 1727 |
Predecessor: | Joaquín Canaves |
Successor: | Paul Alpheran de Bussan |
Ordination: | 25 March 1676 |
Consecration: | 7 June 1722 |
Consecrated By: | Antonfelice Zondadari |
Rank: | Bishop |
Birth Date: | 1 April 1653 |
Birth Place: | Rigomagno, Sinalunga, Italy |
Death Place: | Malta |
Buried: | St. John's Co-Cathedral |
Nationality: | Italian |
Partner: | --> |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
Honorific-Suffix: | O.S.Io.Hieros. |
Gaspare Gori-Mancini (April 1653 – 16 July 1727) was an Italian prelate who was appointed as Bishop of Malta in 1722.
Gori-Mancini was born in the spring of 1653 in Rigomagno in the Province of Siena Italy. In 1676 he was ordained priest of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. On 1 June 1722 Pope Innocent XIII appointed him as the successor of Bishop Joaquín Canaves as Bishop of Malta. He was consecrated on 7 June 1722 by Cardinal Antonfelice Zondadari.[1] In 1723 Bishop Gori-Mancini, duly authorised by the Holy See, transferred the Seminary of the diocese from Mdina to Valletta. Gori-Mancini was bishop during the reign of Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena. Bishop Gori-Mancini died after only five years as bishop on 16 July 1727 at the age of 74. He was buried in St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta. The tabernacle door and altar front with a medallion depicting the martyrdom of St. Catherine in the Chapel of Italy of the same Church were donated by him but later stolen by Napoleon.